Keeper

   I was listening to Mike Vallely's 9 club interviews (posted below) and he was talking about his amazing journey to getting sponsored and how he had to stand his ground to get the iconic graphic he is known for today. The interview is 5 hours long, so it play it while driving. He does mention how he absolutely wanted the artist VCJ to design his board, and because of it, he is now associated with the classic era of Powell Peralta of the 80s, instead of the more modern era of the 90. The evolution of Mike Vallely was lifted off the Street Plant website https://www.streetplantbrand.com/history/ The history of Street Plant begins in 1984. That was the year Mike Vallely saw Thrasher Magazine’s “Street Sequence” issue for the first time and began skateboarding. Under the influence of that magazine, skateboarding transformed from something Vallely fooled around with and into something he could take hold of and pursue on his own terms. Not ...